Luckily you the discerning connoisseur won’t have to go far for your smut. In fact, it’s right there on your Kindle. For only $2.99 for an estimated $15 pages! Wow! What a steal!

Even better, it appears to encompass an entire sub-genre of erotica. All written by the same author mind you, but hey, beggars can’t be choosers. Surely writing such a fantastically large lion’s share of dinosaur porn (dare we say dinorotica? Oh, we dare) qualifies you as a master of the genre.

“I stood in the middle of my village, right in the the dusty center which is traditionally used for ceremonial duties and celebrations.”

Oh. W-well, people sometimes make, you know, mistakes — especially when writing a whopping 15 pages of fictional dinorotica! Who cares if it’s in the mid– wait, what? That’s the very first sentence? I can’t get off to this. Who is this alleged “author?”

“Hi! I’m just a plain old, everyday Midwestern girl that lives a normal life. However, while my outward tastes are relatively simple, my inner thoughts are filled with lusty thoughts of big, strong, powerful monsters having their way with beautiful maidens.

Almost all of my stories fall under the Monster Sex genre, and come from the inner desires that spring from my mind.
Thank you for looking at my author page and thank you for your support. I hope you enjoy these tales of beautiful maidens exploring their lust for these powerful creatures as much as I had writing them.” - 

“…Midwestern girl that lives a normal life,”? She’s like … a Stephenie Meyer?

The Dinorotica author herself

Maybe we’ve gone too harsh too fast. Maybe she does better in her other books. Like that one about the gryphons, or the dragons, or even her hot little page-turner featuring orcs! At least one of them has to be the next Twilight, None of these stories, by the way, exceed 18 or so pages.  Here, have a gander at the book description for the gryphon one (emphasis ours):

This story was written to unlock your darkest fantasies and innermost desires. It is not for the faint of heart and is not your mother’s erotica.All of the sexual descriptions found in this book are very explicit in nature. It’s not suitable for someone under 18 years of age. Read at your own risk.

A beautiful daughter of a powerful nobleman is indentured to serve a strange lord for the rest of her life after her father’s vassal is conquered. Since she is of high birth, she is tasked to take care of the kingdom’s majestic Gryphons, half-lion and half-eagle beasts. She loves her job, despite being a slave, and she finds the Gryphons alluring beyond words. One Gryphon especially catches her eye. This Gryphon is bigger and somehow more handsome than the others. One day while she is feeding her eye-catching Gryphon, she is startled when the Gryphon breaks out of its enclosure and whisks her away into the sky. While she’s soaring through the air with the Gryphon, it starts clawing at her clothing, tearing it away. It doesn’t take her long to realize what the Gryphon truly wants from her. But is she willing to give it away—more importantly, does she even a choice against this winged brute?” - Mounted by the Gryphon

Sex in the air? I don’t know… that’s probably a bit too much, and low oxygen isn’t my first even 5th choice for atmospheric mood setting, as it were.

And … you know, I’m not even that into dinosaurs. It’s too tame. I want actual bestiality [Ed.- the author's opinions are (for some reason) his own, and do not represent the views of OhInternet, its authors, anyone who reads this, or, we hope, anyone who tries to be even a marginally good person, really.] I mean, if the animals are extinct then it’s just necrophilia. And how vanilla is that?  Vanilla necronoobs, kindly vacate the premises. Going back to our original premise, you are meth, and I’m trading up to the heroin that is weredogs (even if two of them have the same exact cover. Finding images is hard).

– Come, Boy!

“[...] huge weredog cock [...]“

Yesss.

Just think – some random hipster thousands of miles away could have a tattoo of you on their ass cheek!

Man gets an ass tattoo. Normally, you would think he was either really drunk and his friends decided to punk him, or he wanted to be funny and/or disrespectful to get something inked on his cheeks.

This wasn’t the case with Joey Jordan, who decided to get some random stranger’s Facebook profile photo on his ass permanently. 

What inspired the idea was Selfless Portraits, a program which Jordan is part of. Selfless Portraits is a collaborative art project consisting of “Strangers across the world drawing each other’s Facebook profile pics.” Jordan, however, decided to take things in a totally different direction.

Jordan was randomly given a Brazilian man named Amarildo, who he’s never met before in his life. Nothing is really known about Amarildo other than he’s from Brazil and has a tough guy profile photo.

The video below, directed by Ivan Cash, shows the 24-year old’s story of getting some random guy from Brazil tatted on his butt (warning, there is a little bit of naked butt in the video).

[CNET via Laughing Squid]

About two years back, we showed you a pretty illustration by Moie Preisenberger of the most well-known Internet browsers personified as beautiful women in beautiful dresses. Surprisingly, that illustration wasn’t made by the Japanese, because, you know, they like to turn just about anything into cute anime girls.

Viktorija Pashuta, a fashion photographer, also had a vision of what web browsers would look like if they were fashion models. Unlike Preisenberger’s idea, Pashuta’s work uses actual models.

Does this make you hate Internet Explorer less?

Pashuta on her blog described the project as a “fashion story” that she “wanted to do for a long time” but couldn’t due not being able to put “right team together.” She added, “It required a lot of pre production and preparation since every Internet Browser had to have very specific elements, colors, features.”

The outfits the models wear are very flashy and colorful and they do a good job of telling you at first glance what browser they represent. I’m particularly wowed by the Firefox lady. For a better description of the browsers, one of Pashuta’s friends commented “Internet Explorer is all flashy, Firefox is sexy, Opera is elegant, Chrome is utilitarian and Safari.”

Which browser do you find the most attractive of the bunch?

[Laughing Squid, Images via Viktorija Pashuta]

Well, it’s happening. Gone is yet another Google service, that being Google Reader. Unlike a lot of other failed and dead Google services, Google Reader is one that I, along with many others, have enjoyed using. Even so, Google did give users the memo of GReader dying months in advance, enough time to give you to import all of your feeds onto another RSS reader.

Services like Feedly and Feedbin have been gaining many new followers, and names you’ve completely forgotten, such as AOL (yes, AOL) and Digg, are also taking advantage of Google Reader’s death.

So, our question to you is have you found an alternative and if so, what is it?

For those interested, unfortunately, they might not even exist. The photo itself might be Photoshopped, or even a really hairy woman. It’s hard to determine whether they’re real or not.

The Stockings, which originate from China, are described as “Super sexy, summertime anti-pervert full-leg-of-hair stockings, essential for all young girls going out.” Super sexy? I guess the whole “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” comes to mind, although I don’t know any man that isn’t repulsed by such.

It’s an interesting concept, albeit a little asinine, and might be fun to use in one of those YouTube prank series we’re seeing so much of recently.

[Laughing Squid via chinaSMACK]

A few months ago, we reported that Facebook was going to finally added hashtags functionality to their website, joining other social networking services such as Twitter or Tumblr. To some, this marks yet another factor making Facebook even worse and less tolerable than ever before.

Obviously, this move, which has been expected to come for some time, has been met with criticism, although many others openly welcome it. Hashtags make conversations more open to the public and make finding others discussing hot, trending topics a much easier process.

“Starting today, hashtags will be clickable on Facebook. Similar to other services like Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, or Pinterest, hashtags on Facebook allow you to add context to a post or indicate that it is part of a larger discussion.” – Greg Lindley.

Facebook’s product manager, Greg Lindley, stated in a blog post:

Every day, hundreds of millions of people use Facebook to share their thoughts on big moments happening all around them. Whether it’s talking about a favorite television show, cheering on a hometown sports team or engaging with friends during a breaking news event—people on Facebook connect with their friends about what’s taking place all over the world.

Hashtags on Facebook will only increase how fast things spread and get shared on Facebook like it does for its competitors. In addition, one can click on hashtags from other services, such as the Facebook-owned Instagram.

For those concerned about just who can enter their posts while using hashtags, Lindley reassures Facebook users by saying “you control the audience for your posts, including those with hashtags.”

For those of you who continue to use Facebook, will hashtags on Facebook make the experience better or worse?

[Facebook]

Starting on January 2nd, websites for the Tunisian Stock Exchange and the Tunisian Ministry of Industry were brought down by more Anonymous DDoS attacks. It was a reaction to Tunisian government censorship. The Tunisian government had tried to restrict the Internet access of its citizens. By the 6th, Tunisia arrested many bloggers and cyberactivists who had been critical of its government.

By January 26th, the Egyptian government became the next target. Efforts started with the intention of removing Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from power. Once the government blocked their citizens from accessing Twitter, Anonymous brought down Egyptian government websites with DDoS attacks by 3:00pm EST.

On February 5th, Aaron Barr of security firm HBGary Federal claimed to have infiltrated Anonymous and said he would release information in a press conference.

HBGary’s website was powered by a CMS (content management system) that had several security loopholes. Because of those loopholes, Anonymous were able to access the site’s databases via SQL injection. Usernames, e-mail addresses and password hashes were retrieved. The MD5 hash algorithms were cracked with rainbow tables, so eventually the entire database became accessible.

Eventually, the company that developed HBGary’s CMS system was fired.

By April 2nd, Sony became the next Anonymous target. Sony’s PlayStation Network banned user GeoHot for jailbreaking and modifying his PS3 console. GeoHot attracted Sony’s attention by posting information about how to mod PS3s to the Internet.

Throughout April, the PlayStation Network and various Sony websites were brought down via organized DDoS attacks. This was Anonymous’ way of coming to GeoHot’s defense. It took a number of weeks until the PlayStation Network was operating normally.

Mid-July, people from Adbusters, the anti-consumerism magazine, started discussing what could be done in response to corporate corruption on Wall Street. The Occupy Wall Street movement was planned from there, for mass protests on Wall Street starting on September 17th.

On August 23rd, Anonymous expressed support of the Occupy Wall Street movement with a video post on YouTube.

From September 17th and onward, many thousands of people have been involved in the protest, which continues to be ongoing. Anonymous and Anonymous supporters have been covering the movement on Anonymous related blogs. Throughout September and into October, many cities around the world have joined the Occupy movement, such as Chicago, Toronto, London, Tokyo, Madrid, Milan and Stockholm.

The ubiquitous and now Anonymous related Guy Fawkes masks can often be seen on protestors. The now international movement has received a lot of coverage from the media, with no end in sight. I believe the Occupy movement is a mass social reaction to growing economic problems around the world.

‘Hacktivism’ is now a major phenomenon, and Anonymous is far from the only ‘hacktivist’ group. Networks, servers and databases which may become targets must audit for security. Harden networks from DDoS attacks, use virtualization and proxy servers when possible, and assure that passwords and hashes are difficult to crack. Special care must be applied to servers which contain encryption keys. For a deeper look into these security issues, check out the IT security training offered by the InfoSec Institute.

The Internet and the Information Age is accelerating the evolution of society and social activism. It’s becoming more and more difficult to censor any information. I’m excited to watch how networking technology is changing the world, more often than not for the better.

In June, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected in Iran, which triggered protests across the country. In response, Anonymous Iran was formed, an online project between Anonymous and The Pirate Bay, a popular but persecuted torrent search engine site. Anonymous Iran offered Iranians a forum to the world which was kept safe amidst the Iranian government’s crackdowns on online news about the riots. Project Skynet was launched by Anonymous the same month, to fight Internet censorship worldwide.

Operation Didgeridie started in September. The Australian government had plans to censor the Internet at the ISP level. On the 9th, an Anonymous initiated DDoS attack on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s website brought it down for about an hour.

2010: Operation Titstorm, Operation Payback and WikiLeaks

In February, the Australian government was in the process of passing legislation that would make pornography featuring female ejaculation and small breasted women illegal. A porn star with small breasts must be underage, apparently. In response, on the 10th, Anonymous engaged in Operation Titstorm, using DDoS attacks to bring down various Australian government websites.

Operation Payback commenced in September. The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) hired Indian software firm AIPLEX to launch DDoS attacks on The Pirate Bay and other websites related to file sharing. In retaliation, Anonymous posted the following:

“Operation:Payback is a bitch.

DATE \September 19, 2010\

To whom it may concern,

This is to inform you that we, Anonymous, are organizing an Operation called “Payback is a bitch”. Anonymous will be attacking the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), the MPAA (Motion Pictures Association of America), and their hired gun AIPLEX for attacks against the popular torrent and file sharing site, the Piratebay (www.thepiratebay.org). We will prevent users to access said enemy sites and we will keep them down for as long as we can. But why, you ask? Anonymous is tired of corporate interests controlling the internet and silencing the people’s rights to spread information, but more importantly, the right to SHARE with one another.The RIAA and the MPAA feign to aid the artists and their cause; yet they do no such thing. In their eyes is not hope, only dollar signs. Anonymous will not stand this any longer.We wish you the best of luck.

Sincerely,

Anonymous,

We are legion.”

Anonymous executed DDoS attacks of their own, targeting websites linked to all three organizations, the MPAA, the RIAA and AIPLEX.

Operation Payback continued in December, but this time the targets were Mastercard, Visa Paypal, the Bank of America and Amazon. WikiLeaks is a website for whistleblowers to post insider information about corrupt government activities around the world. Those corporations were targeted for blocking charitable donations for the WikiLeaks website. By the 8th, websites for Mastercard and Visa were brought down, once again by DDoS attacks.

On the weekend of December 11th and 12th, crackers broke into Gawker Media’s network. The online media company, known for popular blogs like Gawker.com, Jezebel.com and Gizmodo.com, uses Campfire, a corporate network chat application. The administrative logins used on the Gawker network were cracked, perhaps by brute force, dictionary or rainbow attacks. From Campfire chat, the crackers were able to obtain more administrative login credentials, and eventually the usernames and passwords for thousands of Gawker network users were obtained.

One of Gawker’s official Twitter accounts was also broken into. The cracker tweeted under the Gizmodo account:

“Gawker.com Gizmodo.com Lifehacker.com hacked, 1.5 million usernames/emails/passwords taken”.

Anonymous were blamed for the attacks, they were seen as revenge for Gawker blogs posting negative stories about 4chan. But on the 12th, an e-mail was sent to tech blog The Next Web saying:

“It has come to our attention that you are reporting about gawker.com being hacked by Anonymous and Operation Payback in the war against the wikileaks drama that is currently taking place. While we feel for Wikileaks plight, and encourage everyone to donate and mirror the site, we are not related to Operation Payback or engaged in their activities. We have compromised all their email accounts and databases, and a significant portion of the passwords have been unhashed into plaintext.”

The same day, Mediaite.com received an e-mail from Gnosis, a hacker group unrelated to Anonymous.

“We went after Gawker because of their outright arrogance. It took us a few hours to find a way to dump all their source code and a bit longer to find a way into their database.

We found an interesting quote in their Campfire logs:

Hamilton N.: Nick Denton Says Bring It On 4Chan, Right to My Home Address (After The Jump)

Ryan T.: We Are Not Scared of 4chan Here at 210 Elizabeth St NY NY 10012

I mean if you say things like that, and attack sites like 4chan (Which we are not affiliated to) you must at least have the means to back yourself up. We considered what action we would take, and decided that the Gawkmedia “empire” needs to be brought down a peg or two. Our groups mission? We don’t have one.

We will be releasing the full source code dump along with the database at 9PM GMT today. You are the only outlet we have told the release time.”

So, Anonymous were wrongly blamed for the attack.

In mid-December, The Standard reported that the wife of Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe, Grace Mugabe profited from illegal diamond mining. The information was revealed via a cable leak to WikiLeaks. Mrs. Mugabe sued The Standard for $15 million. By December 31st, Anonymous brought down Zimbabwean websites via DDoS attacks, as a response to Zimbabwean government corruption and Mrs. Mugabe’s litigation.

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It’s a pretty amazing video filled with all kinds of nostalgia while giving us an accurate visual on how our modern services would look in the primitive computing days.

Although they might want to correct one of the references in one of Wikipedia article in the video. Pretty sure Perez Hilton was a flaming queer with horrible a sense of fashion, minus the media relevance.

‘Hacktivist’ is a portmanteau of ‘hacker’ and ‘activist’. When people have technical skills, have access to the Internet, and understand how network infrastructure and servers work, it can be tempting to put that knowledge into having some effect on the world. The ‘activist’ part of ‘hacktivist’ means that they don’t do their hacking and cracking without a cause. The various people behind Anonymous worldwide are united in a belief that corporations and organizations they consider to be corrupt should be attacked. If you’re an administrator for a network that has little reason to be a target for social activists, your network and servers are unlikely to become a target for Anonymous. If for some reason you believe your network might become a target, I recommend testing it for handling DDoS attacks, as that’s the most common method Anonymous uses to bring down web servers.

Not all of Anonymous’ activities involve attacking networks or websites. Anonymous has also been active in initiating public protests. But the web and IRC channels are the lifeblood of the group. If it weren’t for the Internet, Anonymous would’ve never existed.

2003: 4chan

4chan (4chan.org), an image-based bulletin board website, was publicly launched on October 1st. The site was inspired by 2channel (2ch.net), a massive Internet forum, with seemingly random content, which is especially popular in Japan. 2channel debuted in 1999. It has over 600 boards which cover wide ranging subject matters, such as cooking, social news, and computers. Visitors to 2channel usually post anonymously, but the vast majority of content on the site is in Japanese.

The creator and administrator of 4chan goes by the handle ‘moot’. Raspberry Heaven is an IRC community that originally consisted of members of the ‘Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse’ sub-forum of SomethingAwful.com, and ‘moot’ is from the Raspberry Heaven community.

In the spirit of 2channel, 4chan allows people to post anonymously as well. Unlike 2channel, the vast majority of 4chan is in English. Well, it’s mainly English and slang based on various Internet memes, really. Any poster who doesn’t post text in the name field automatically gets credited as ‘Anonymous’. Most of the various forums on 4chan are based on Japanese pop culture, but their most popular forum is /b/.

/b/ has a fascinating culture unto itself. A lot of the user created graphical memes you may see circulating around the Internet, like LOLcats, ‘All your base are belong to us’, and Pedobear, originated in the /b/ forum. As it is an image board, most of the postings are user generated graphics. Usually, they’re intended to amuse, offend, or do both at the same time. The majority of the postings are ‘Anonymous’.

2008: Project Chanology

On January 14th, a video from the Church of Scientology was leaked onto YouTube. It was a propaganda video featuring Tom Cruise laughing hysterically. I assume the video was mocked in the 4chan /b/ forum and related IRC channels. As the clip is arguably unflattering to Scientology, the cult tried to get YouTube to remove the video due to ‘copyright infringement’. In response, on January 21st, a video was posted on YouTube credited to Anonymous titled ‘Message to Scientology’. Thus began Project Chanology.

A press release was written explaining the intentions behind Anonymous’ Project Chanology. The release covers why Scientology is a dangerous organization, and how the cult’s attempt to have the Tom Cruise video removed from YouTube was a violation of freedom of speech. Scientology has a reputation for financially exploiting its members, engaging in threatening blackmail against people who try to leave the cult, and various other abuses. ‘Call to Action’ was posted to YouTube on January 28th, also credited to Anonymous, calling for protests outside of Church of Scientology centres around the world on February 10th. At some point in January, a DDoS attack was also launched on the cult’s website.

During the various Anonymous protests against Scientology that year, many protestors wore Guy Fawkes masks, in the spirit of the popular film V for Vendetta, and also to protect their identities from the cult, which is known for attacking dissenters Scientology calls ‘Suppressive Persons’.

International protests outside of Scientology centres were orchestrated on February 10th, March 15th, and April 12th, attracting thousands of people.

On March 28th, JavaScript code was maliciously injected into the Epilepsy Foundation of America’s web forums, to generate animations that can trigger epileptic seizures. People from 7chan.org (another website inspired by 2channel and 4chan) and subequently Anonymous were blamed for the attack. But the administrators of 7chan believed the attack was done by the Church of Scientology, making it look like it was done by Anonymous to harm their reputation. I believe Scientology did frame Anonymous. The cult has a reputation for condoning and initiating malicious actions against dissenters under their ‘fair game’ policy.

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